About 40,000 people return to Ukraine in the past 24 hours: western border sitrep

The Western Regional Department of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine-Western Border shared the figures, Espreso.West reported.

"During the day on June 17, more than 81,000 people and 20,000 vehicles crossed Ukraine's western borders with the EU and Moldova," the statement said.

More than 41,000 people left Ukraine last night. Almost 25,000 of them crossed the border with Poland, the rest went to Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Moldova. While about 40,000 people came to Ukraine, 36,000 of them were Ukrainians.

Almost 110 trucks with humanitarian aid were registered during the day.